CodePen Radio

We've never specifically sought out VC funding at CodePen, but there was a time when several of them approached us. We knew very little about how that world works, so we learned about it. As you might expect, the decision and process isn't easy. In this episode we talk about our experiences with all that. […]

This week we talk about how the law affects our business. For example, how we chose a business type and getting set up as an S-Corp, the types of law-breaking that are possible on CodePen, how and why we license Pens, our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and more.

Email is the topic this week. Marketing email, transactional email, all kinds of email. It's a fact of life in web apps. At CodePen we've used a variety of different tech to deal with it and had our share of ups and downs. Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) Mailchimp Mandrill

This week we talk about code quality. Not what makes code well written or not broken, but code that matches an agreed to syntax, is consistent, and matches some generic best practices that can be determined algorithmically. JSLint ES Lint Sublime Text Sublime Linter Syntastic Rubocop: a Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community […]

This week, we talk about "bad guys": the people that make life difficult for the CodePen community, and what we do to mitigate or prevent the damage. Show Links: Code of Conduct ShopTalk Show: One on One with a Hacker Solr Search Platform Bug Bounty

As we're about ready to release our new PRO Teams feature, we talk about the idea of complexity in web software. This feature was incredibly complex for us, in some ways because software is inherently complex, but much moreso because of how much existing code we have that this new feature touches. Complexity is an […]

We weren't able to get all our money talk into one episode! We continue that here, mostly focusing on outgoing money this time instead of incoming money. Links from the episode: The Noun Project

We discuss money. The different services we use, pricing, and why we went with a recurring revenue model for CodePen. We talk mostly about incoming money, saving outgoing money for the next episode. We also discuss sharing financials and what's in it for who. Stripe Balanced Quickbooks Stats

All about how we work together as a team.

CodePen, like any web app these days, is powered by a heaping helping of open source software. Links from the episode: Sinatra Phantom JS Socket.io Faye youmightnotneedjquery.com Lo-Dash Underscore.js CodeMirror